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  1. Thread: Nude

    by Brian Sims
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    Re: Nude

    This is technically beautiful. And compositionally provocative. I'm not sure why, but there is a hint of Picasso in the image. I think it is how her arm seems isolated from her body by her hair. ...
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    Re: October 2016 portrait

    This has a lot of sadness...had New York just lost the Series?
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    Re: safe haven for tiny formats

    Very Beautiful. A provocative composition that really works.
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    Re: October 2015 Portraits

    This is extraordinary. Very nice.
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    Re: Tiny Format Portraits

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    An old Sherpa woman in Nepal
  6. Thread: More fires

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    Re: More fires

    I hope they are held without bail until it rains 10 inches. Fools.
  7. Re: Anyone seen this scanning setup?

    If the film is held without any contact with glass, how does the system deal with sheet film that isn't flat?
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    Re: AM vs PM golden hour

    There seems to be common response that morning is golden and evening is more red.
    So I consulted my wife who is a mentor on the physics forum. I asked her to post the question there. She rolled...
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    Re: May 2015 portrait

    I like this a lot. What kept be me looking at this was the question of who is the subject.
    Is it dad--protective and proud? or
    Is it the scowling baby--"why are we stopping? Who is that behind me?...
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    Re: Smaller Fomat Nudes

    How many people are scared by this photo?
    Is it the lighting that reminds me of Hitchcock's Psycho?
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    Re: Tiny Format Portraits

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    An old Sherpa woman on the way to Everest base camp in 2005
  12. Poll: Re: do you remember every photograph you have taken ?

    I'm the same as David. I can remember all that I printed.
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    Re: Post Your Photos Made At Close Distance

    The head had an LB on it near the edge. I'm not sure it was an SAE grade, but my old hardware guy said it was the softest he had.
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    Re: Post Your Photos Made At Close Distance

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    I shot this today, not as artistic venture, but to illustrate the importance of using a proper sheer bolt on one's augur on the back of a 50 horse tractor. I hit a rock and the 7/16 inch...
  15. Re: Alfred Hitchcock - incredible reference for deep deep blacks

    One of my top ten best movies. The chase through the sewers Vienna was spectacular. The sound was as important as the use of black.
    BTW: Carol Reed directed the movie. Orson Welles was a main...
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    Re: Craziest photo trip.

    My brother and I drove from Seattle to Smith Rock in central Oregon to take a photo of the comet Hale-Bopp with Smith Rock in the foreground. On the way, we stopped in Detroit, Oregon to get gas. ...
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    Re: Peter Lik deserves our skepticism

    In the 1890s the estimate was "there's a sucker born every minute." That was when there was only 1.7 billion people in the world. Now, there's 7 billion. And I haven't seen any indication at all...
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    Re: November 2014 Portraits

    Nino, I really like this portrait. I don't know how you did it, but it is like she is looking at us with an innocent eye and a not so innocent eye (her left one). Spectacular. Compelling.
    My only...
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    Re: Forest Service: New Regulation/Fines?

    Federal staff who promulgate the "rules" rarely step outside the beltway. Their job is to make rules. So they make rules. They are not bothered by the realities on the ground, or whether the rules...
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    Re: "leading Ansel Adams away in handcuffs"

    Drew, once again I would recommend reading the article. Let me point out a key paragraph:

    “We had to convince them our stories would be in keeping with their interpretation of the values of...
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    Re: "leading Ansel Adams away in handcuffs"

    Drew, "The journalists can follow the rules, just like the rest of us have to."

    Did you bother to read the article? If you did, you must have missed the part about the local forest service...
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    "leading Ansel Adams away in handcuffs"

    The quote is down a ways in the article about Forest Service requiring permits for photojournalists.

    http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024629853_forestpermitxml.html
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    Re: NASA Film Processing Mistakes

    Ooops. My mistake. I had only skimmed the text and assumed it was from the Apollo mission. So I take my snide comment back. Not bad quality given the limitations and challenges.
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    NASA Film Processing Mistakes

    In today's NY Times:...
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    Re: loose rear lens cap

    I fixed mine once by tossing the cap in some boiling water for a couple of minutes and then wrapping it with a wide, tight rubber band and leaving it for a few days. The tighter fit last for almost...
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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    My grandmother always scolded us that if we picked a trillium it wouldn't bloom again for 7 years. Can anyone validate that?

    Heroique, I love the depth of your first shot.
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    Re: post your trees!

    I do believe this belongs in the portrait thread. Perhaps titled: "Two old French fishermen watching the sun set"
  28. Re: Landscape hikers – “10 essentials” or not?

    Here's an "eleventh essential" I've been using: Trip reports before you leave.

    There is a lot of crap on the internet, but backpackers' trip reports are pretty remarkable. You can learn about...
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    Re: Cleaning up dust

    get a bag of sweeping compound from a janitorial supply store. I use that to pick up most of drywall dust, then vacuum with a heap filter. The sweeping compound binds to the dust and makes clump.
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    Re: California water shortage

    Tell your wife that if darkroom water use had any meaningful effect on total water use there would be plenty of water because there are probably on 7 darkrooms left in all of California.

    Of...
  31. Re: Darkroom water, effluent and climate control

    Bob, Holly Heck! You going to rent your space out to a cardiac surgeon when you're not using it?
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    Re: What paint to use on a new wood camera?

    you might want to look into pigmented polyurethane
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    Re: What did you compose at Waters Edge?

    Heroique, She's not in a very deep sleep. When I climbed Baker a few years ago, there was a very active vent about 1,000 feet of elevation below the summit. When the mid-day snowmelt poured into...
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    Re: Stepping down ...

    Matus, When I became a father, my whole world shrunk as did my photography. But by the time my daughter was 17 she had me jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at about 12,000 feet. My oldest...
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    Re: Darkroom Lightbulbs

    The law in effect today is only a prohibition on manufacture. Shipping and sale of incandescent bulbs is still legal.
  36. Re: Your eyesight goes bad. Your doctor says time for a choice.

    By "fix" do you mean eye surgery? I know a lot of people who have had it done, but the thought of someone cutting on my eyes creeps me out. I have graduated trifocals which I can change as...
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    Ink Expiration Dates

    I am still using Epson K3 inks with expiration dates of 2009. There is no change in the image from the same prints made when the inks were "fresher." Are these dates just a way to get us to buy...
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    Re: Antarctica & velvia 50

    remember to stop 1 stop down to compensate for the hole in the ozone. :)
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    Re: Still Life & Flash Metering

    Just to offer a technical clarification: when you are metering a single light source (pointing it at the flash) you need to use the flat diffuser not the dome. The dome picks up light from more than...
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    Re: safe haven for tiny formats

    Does that make it sculpture or photography?
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